What I've done was replace the wireless with electric outlet ethernet adapter and replace the hardrive where the samba shares were.

The first should not be a problem, I suppose, as the network seems to be working fine. (I had to do some work to get my VPN client to work, but I think it has nothing to do with this problem.) For instance, I can SSH to the samba server without problems.

Now, I replaced the old hard disk with a larger one. I rsync'ed the old to the new, edited fstab to mount the new HD in the old mounting point ('/media/media').

I edited this file when I got the new HD, as I needed to remove some entries, so please let me know if I mistakenly took something out I shouldn't have.

I don't think I've ever touched smb.conf.master, but I can post it if it helps.

Now, I cannot access the shares in other computers. In another computer, if I try to access via XFCE file managers: Network -> Windows Network -> MEDIA (appears), I get "Failed to Open MEDIA. Failed to retrieve share list from server."

Samba name server DEBIAN is now a local master browser for workgroup MEDIA on subnet 192.168.1.120

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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Let me know if I can provide any further info.

Thanks,

Luis

finotti

Post subject: RE: problems with samba Posted: 02.07.2013, 04:32

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OK, I've got some more info: in the fstab of my other computer (the samba client), if I change "debian" by its address (192.168.1.120) it works fine. But, thunar, which finds the shares itself, cannot connect. Same with my WDTV. On android, I used the IP address to mount the shares, so that's why it works...

slh

Post subject: RE: problems with samba Posted: 02.07.2013, 16:40

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First check your smb.conf with testparm (packaged in samba-common-bin), also make sure that there aren't conflicting hostnames configured in /etc/hosts (keep in mind that several home routers tend to cache hostname sent to them via dhcp requests, which might interfere for a little longer).

browe

Post subject: RE: problems with samba Posted: 05.07.2013, 21:17

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A little off topic, but please reconsider using electric outlet network. It could be a security issue and may generate radio frequency. See this link for more information: